In "Mom's cookbook" (2021), David Alekhuogie turns a domestic archive into a meditation on inheritance, memory, and the quiet authority of Black familial life. The archival pigment print, measuring 101.6 × 81.3 cm, renders its subject with a richness of tone and surface that rewards close looking, transforming an intimate object into something monumental. Alekhuogie's lens has long been drawn to the spaces where identity is quietly assembled rather than performed, and here that sensibility finds one of its most tender expressions. Alekhuogie, a Los Angeles-based photographer whose work has earned serious institutional attention, approaches vernacular imagery with both documentary precision and poetic restraint. A cookbook belonging to his mother carries within it generations of knowledge, taste, and labor, and by isolating it as a photographic subject, Alekhuogie asks viewers to reconsider what constitutes a cultural document. The image refuses sentimentality while honoring its source, striking a balance that characterizes the most durable photography of its generation. Presented as a signed archival pigment print, the work offers exceptional longevity and quality for the discerning collector. Currently available through Assembly, this piece represents a meaningful opportunity to acquire a quietly significant work from an artist whose critical profile continues to grow. Collectors drawn to photography that operates at the intersection of the personal and the political will find in "Mom's cookbook" a work that holds its depth across years of sustained engagement.